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Electra, daughter of Atlas, had two sons, Iasion and Dardanus, by Zeus.¹ Now Iasion loved Demeter, and in an attempt to defile the goddess he was killed by a thunderbolt.² Grieved at his brother's death, Dardanus left Samothrace and came to the opposite mainland. That country was ruled by a king, Teucer, son of the river Scamander and of a nymph Idaea, and the inhabitants of the country were called Teucrians after Teucer. Being welcomed by the king, and having received a share of the land and the king's daughter Batia, he built a city Dardanus, and when Teucer died he called the whole country Dardania.³

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[1] Ἠλέκτρας δὲ τῆς Ἄτλαντος καὶ Διὸς Ἰασίων καὶ Δάρδανος ἐγένοντο. Ἰασίων μὲν οὖν ἐρασθεὶς Δήμητρος καὶ θέλων καταισχῦναι τὴν θεὸν κεραυνοῦται, Δάρδανος δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ θανάτῳ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ λυπούμενος, Σαμοθρᾴκην ἀπολιπὼν εἰς τὴν ἀντίπερα ἤπειρον ἦλθε. ταύτης δὲ ἐβασίλευε Τεῦκρος ποταμοῦ Σκαμάνδρου καὶ νύμφης Ἰδαίας· ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ οἱ τὴν χώραν νεμόμενοι Τεῦκροι προσηγορεύοντο. ὑποδεχθεὶς δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ λαβὼν μέρος τῆς γῆς καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου θυγατέρα Βάτειαν, Δάρδανον ἔκτισε πόλιν· τελευτήσαντος δὲ Τεύκρου τὴν χώραν ἅπασαν Δαρδανίαν ἐκάλεσε.

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1. This account of the parentage of Iasion had the authority of Hellanicus ( Scholiast on Hom. Od. v.125 ). Compare Diod. 5.48.2 .

2. Compare Conon 21 ; Strab. 7 Fr. 50, ed. Meineke ; Hyginus, Ast. ii.4 . A different turn is given to the story by Homer, who represents the lovers meeting in a thrice-ploughed field ( Hom. Od. 5.125-128 ). To the same effect Hes. Th. 969-974 says that the thrice-ploughed field where they met was in a fertile district of Crete, and that Wealth was born as the fruit of their love. Compare Diod. 5.77.1ff. ; Hyginus, Fab. 270 . The Scholiast on Hom. Od. v.125 , attempts to rationalize the myth by saying that Iasion was the only man who preserved seed-corn after the deluge.

3. As to the migration of Dardanus from Samothrace to Asia and his foundation of Dardania or Dardanus, see Diod. 5.48.2ff. ; Conon 21 ; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Δάρδανος ; compare Hom. Il. 20.215ff. According to one account he was driven from Samothrace by a flood and floated to the coast of the Troad on a raft. See Lycophron, Cassandra 72ff., with the scholia of Tzetzes ; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xx.215 . As to his marriage with Batia, daughter of Teucer, and his succession to the kingdom, compare Diod. 4.75.1 . According to Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Δάρδανες , Batia, the wife of Dardanus, was a daughter of Tros, not of Teucer.

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